Advantages of WebHarvy Web Scraper

What makes WebHarvy different from other web scraping software ? What are the key benefits and advantages that you receive while using WebHarvy for data extraction ? Read on . .

Scrape data using a point and click interface

WebHarvy is a visual Web Scraper. You can configure WebHarvy to scrape data from websites using a point and click interface. There is no need to write any scripts/code or go through complicated setup procedures to scrape data. Just browse to the page which contains the data to be extracted and select the required data by clicking on them. It is that easy ! See this video demonstration to know how easy it is to scrape data from websites using WebHarvy. Also, see the various ways in which data can be selected for extraction.

WebHarvy's point and click interface : very easy to use

Intelligently identifies patterns of data in web pages.

One of the major design goals which we had while developing WebHarvy is that users should be able scrape data from web sites with minimum amount of interaction with the software. This implies minimum amount of key presses and mouse clicks.

So while you are trying to scrape a list of repeating data items like name, address, email address, price etc from a web page, WebHarvy will not ask you whether you are trying to capture a single data item or a list of items, unlike other web data extraction software. If data repeats, WebHarvy will intelligently identify it.

Scrape multi-level category listings of websites

'Category Scraping' feature of WebHarvy allows you to scrape data listed under multiple categories of websites using a single configuration. Multiple levels of category listings can be easily scraped using a configuration created by following a very simple procedure as shown in the following video.

Keyword based scraping

The Keyword Scraping feature of WebHarvy helps you to automatically perform searches using a list of keywords and scrape the resulting data, for each of the keywords. Know more about Keyword based scraping. The following video shows how WebHarvy can be configured for Keyword Scraping

WebHarvy's Keyword-based Scraping feature

Powerful features under the hood

Even though WebHarvy is very easy to use and has a very simple user interface, we have packed more powerful features under the hood so that you can handle even the most complex data extraction requirements with our software.

Extracted data can be saved in a variety of formats

WebHarvy allows you to save the data extracted from websites as a file or to an SQL database. CSV (comma separated values), TSV (tab separated values), XML (Extensible Markup Language), JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) file formats are supported. CSV files can be opened using any spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel, Open Office or with Google Docs.